V. I. Lenin

Demonstration Slogans{1}

Written:November 28 (December 11), 1917Published:First published in 1957 in the journalVoprosi Istorii KPSSNo. 3.

      Printed from the manuscript.Source:Lenin
	  Collected Works,

      2nd English Edition,

      Progress Publishers,1965,

      Moscow,Volume 42,

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Tothe demonstration slogans published on 28.XI., I advise
adding:

Shameto the Right S.R.s and

Chernovites{2}who have broken away from the peasant congress!

Longlive the Second All-Russia Congress of Peasant Deputies, which has
sided with the Soviet power!

Theworking people demand that the Constituent Assembly recognise
Soviet power and the Soviet Government!

Longlive the nationalisation of the banks!

Downwith the saboteurs and striking officials! Boycott them, use
revolutionary terrorism against them!

{1}Lenin’s notes “Demonstration Slogans” are an amendment to the appeal
of the Petrograd Soviet “To the Workers and Soldiers of Petrograd” which
was published on November 28 (December 11), 1917, in Pravda and Izvestia,
The Cadets had arranged a demonstration for that day with the intention of
forcing the opening of the Constituent Assembly and carrying out a
counter-revolutionary coup.

Theattempt of the counter-revolutionary bourgeoisie,
under the leadership of the Cadets, to seize power was frustrated by the
measures taken by the Council of People’s Commissars and the Petrograd
Soviet.

{2}Chernov,V. M. (1876-1952)—one of the leaders of the
S.R. Party.  In 1917 lie was Minister of Agriculture in the bourgeois
Provisional Government. After the October Revolution he was one of the
organisers of anti-Soviet revolts.